Reply #127: I've believed this philosophy 30 years ago, before I ever heard of Noam Chomsky

[Grinchie]

Many years ago I heard someone on the radio discussing education, and how the system has been transformed into nothing more than a classification system for Corporate friendly workers. They are then fed a curricula which is so specialized, thet they perform very well in certain ares, but are totally helpless in others, like Money management, the abilitty to identify and Asset vs a Liability, appreciate Art, or even have the interest in how things work. I call it the "It's Not My Yob" mentality, and this is promoted constantly in todays workplace.

Workers today for the most part have no clue how the business they work for functions, nor do they have any say in the matter. They are trained to show up, do whatever unrewarding robotic task they are told to do, then go home and relax after an exhausting day of doing a very narrow range of unchallenging tasks.

For the most part, the worker is trained to just do what they are told without question. They are expected to do this 100% of the time, and they are threatened with disciplinary action such as replacement, simply because they are the same as an interchangeable cog produced from the educational system.

The true independants are not afraid to act upon ethics and make demands upon their employers when they find problems, even though it may mean losing their jobs. The true independant is not afraid of offering resistance, because they know that they can excel at anything they put their mind to. In my early career, I ran into this problem where the Corporate machine would rather not here any bad news, and would rather just get a Team player that would continue taking a paycheck without questioning the reasons for things. While initially it was disturbing to be let go for asking what I thought were simple questions, I started to understand the system more intimately.

When I gained understanding that Corporations are in a struggle to grab Innovators, yet on the other hand dislikes independent thought, I changed my Philosophy to be driven toward always gaining knowledge at the expense of the Employer. Sure I always studied on my own, but for the most part, I was getting paid for it at the same time. When the time came when the Corporation decided that they had extracted value and started to quash further innovation, I moved on, taking the education with me, only to move to better pastures.

Many people are so tethered to the rat race that they don't have a choice in the matter. They stay because they are forced to, simply due to debt slavery.

I was once fully immersed in Debt Slavery and the Rat Race, but I was fortunate and was able to extract myself from this insidious trap. At this point in my life, I still learn like a sponge, but in many disparate fields, which is what was so valuable to my previous employers.

Some of the most prolific scientists of out times were Polymath's, educated in many fields, languages, and mathematics. Our educational system is afraid of the Polymath, simply because they have such a wide grasp on the Natural world and interdisciplinary skills that they can spot the Bullshit when they read a scientific paper that omits a key observation in hopes that the reader won't put the 2 together.

Additionally, there are mechanisms in place that will ostracise independent minds and ideas, such as the Scientific Journals, the AMA, ACA, and even Government regulatory bodies that suppress new discoveries with many tactics to destroy the researcher.

Just for a tip of the iceberg, check out the film "Heavy Watergate" for an eye opening example of suppression, reputation destruction, big money, Government interference, Wholly Owned Universities, and paid schills that all worked together to destroy Fleischman and Ponz. Forget about "The good of the Earth" especially when it means the loss of Billions of dollars in funding or profit.